Alvaro Pascual-Leone
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'''Alvaro Pascual-Leone''' (born [[7 August]] [[1961]] in [[Valencia (city in Spain)|Valencia]], [[Spain]]) is a professor of [[neurology]] at [[Harvard Medical School]], with which he has been affiliated since [[1997]]. He is the Director of the [[Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation]] and Program Director of the [[General Clinical Research Center]] of the [[Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center]] in [[Boston]].
Dr. Pascual-Leone obtained an [[Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]] and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[Neurophysiology]] from the [[Medical school|Faculty of Medicine]] of [[Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg|Albert Ludwigs University]] in [[Germany]]. He also trained at the [[University of Minnesota]] and the US [[National Institutes of Health]].
In [[2000]], he won the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award.
Pascual-Leone lives in [[Wayland]], [[Massachusetts]] with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.
==External links==
*[http://www.tmslab.org Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation]
*[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16008890/site/newsweek/ Minds and Magnets: An experimental treatment offers promise for some patients whose depression resists standard medications and shock therapy.], ''[[Newsweek]]'', December 11, 2006 - features Dr. Pascual-Leone and [[transcranial magnetic stimulation]]
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